lindsay chervinsky your research is on george washington's cabinet what influenced how this was set up. so the cabinet is actually not in the constitution and so when washington entered the presidency, he created the cabinet as he went through his governing process when he discovered that he needed that advice and he relied on a couple of things he relied on his military experience from the revolutionary war to and he brought some of those practices from the war into the presidency and then he also relied on the secretary's experiences at the state level and how they had interacted with the state governments to form their interactions in the cabinet. and how was the british cabinet set up? it's a great question. the american public was very much aware of the british cabinet. and so that was very much in their minds at the time. the british constitution is actually an unwritten constitution. so what it is, it's a number of parliamentary legislation acts. there's a number of decisions by the british courts, and then other scholarly works and when you bring those together that makes up th

and now historian lindsay chervinsky talks about how george washington formed and interacted with members of his presidential cabinet. he also discusses how the american cabinet system differed from tri